IT Compliance Advisor:

November, 2009

As 2009 comes to a close, we know that the ways you are finding IT compliance resources, news and fellow compliance professionals are changing as the online environment evolves. We know your inbox isn't the only place to find you. Last week, we created two new communities on Facebook and...

How did the first U.S. “cyber czar” describe his time as the nation’s assistant secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C)? Quoting Mark Twain, Greg Garcia observed that “a man who carries a cat by a tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
It was “like a...

U.S. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) this week introduced H.R. 4098, “The Secure Federal File Sharing Act,” which would require the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance to prohibit the personal use of peer-to-peer file-sharing software by government employees.
Towns, who sits on...

A new study of top government IT executives conducted by the Ponemon Institute identified outsourcing, cyberterrorism and an increasingly mobile workforce as significant threats to data, government systems and the nation’s critical infrastructure.
IT executives from the Departments of Defense,...

Yesterday, CBS News' 60 Minutes devoted its opening story to cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure in the United States, including the power grid, financial systems and military information systems. Threatpost, the information security blog associated with Kaspersky Labs, has...

U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, appearing Friday as the keynote speaker at the University of Maryland's CIO Forum, touched on a number of topics affecting both public- and private-sector CIOs. Some of his comments follow:
“We found that the role of CIOs in the federal government is very much focused on...